Improvement in ruffled trimming



:I tatea EMMA c. WoosTeR,

OF NEWYORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 85,502, dated December 29, 1868.

To all 'whom it may concern I Be it known that I, EMMA C. WoosTER, ofthe city,

county, and State o New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Rufles, of which the following is a. full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming part of this speciiication, and in which- Figures l and 2 represent face views of separate parts or rufdes before they are united to forni Iny improved double ruie;

Figure 3 is a face view of said double ruffle;

Figure 4, a side or'edge view of the same; and

Figure 5, a transverse section thereof on au enlarged scale.

Similar letters of Areference indicate corresponding parts.

This, my invention, consists in a novel combination of a peculiarlyconstructed band-ruffle with a peculiarly-constructed two-ply or double-frilled rue, in such manner as that the one is made to strengthen or stiiien the other, and whereby a double ruiie, of

ornamental and peculiar character', is produced.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A represents the one portion or piece of my improved double rutile, which portion consists of a band-rutile, made of a single piece of cloth or lacing, a, doubled over, and the edges secured or stitched to the band l), which may either be single or double, the cloth or lacing, a, being crimped, ruiiied, or shirred, as at c, and

the band-portion being made to occupy a sunken position relatively to the cloth or lacing, e, so as to give to the latter a raised character above Ithe band b, on its one side or face.'

A band ruffle of this description may be found described in Letters Patent (No. 42,403) of the United States, issued on the 19th day oi' April, 1864, to Thomas Robjohn, of Mott Haven, New York State, and the same may be made as described in said patent, or otherwise.

The other portion or piece, B, of my improved double ruiiie, is made substantially as described in Letters Pat- 4ent (N o. 40,877) issued to me on the 8th day of December, 1863, the saine consisting of a two`ply ruffle, composed oi' a single piece of cloth or lacing, doubled by turning inward, and folding both of' its edges, and having the two edges, when thus turned inward, secured by stitching or otherwise, leaving a longitudinal and intermediate sunken iiat portion, d, and raised frills or crimped surfaces, e e, on either side of such, dat portion.

The two parts or pieces, A and B, thus formed, are then united by placing the sunken .dat portion (Lof the rufe B on the band b of the rufle A, eausingithe B to overlap, in part, the crimped, ruiled, or 'shirred portion or surface, c, of the rutile A, substantially as represented in figs. 3 and 5 of the drawing, and the two rniiles, A and B, as thus arranged, united by 1ongitudinal stitching, run through the portion d andrband b, to the turned-in edges of the cloth or lacing a, the whole constituting a new article of manufacture, forming a new and improved double rutile.

If desired, a strip or binding may be stitched on or over and along the dat portion il of the rutile B, to give increased strength or 'extra finish.

Both ruiiies, A and B, it will be observed, are of a two-pl y character. n

What is here claimed, and desired to be Letters Patent, is-

A double ruie, composed of a two-ply band-rudie, A, and two-ply double-frilled rue, B, made and combined with each other, substantially in the manner described.

EMMA C. WOOSTER.

Witnesses:

Gr. H. Woosrnn, JOHN L. BRowER.

one frillcd or crimped surface or border erof the rutile' secured by 

